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NAKIVO Inc., a pioneering vendor of data protection solutions for physical, virtual, cloud, and SaaS environments, announced strong operational results for Q1 2025. Compared to the same period last year, the company achieved a 14% increase in overall revenue, grew its Managed Service Provider (MSP) partner network by 31%, and expanded its global customer base by 10%. These results demonstrate the company’s sustained momentum in delivering high-performance, cost-effective backup and recovery solutions worldwide. MSP partner network expansion NAKIVO grew its MSP partner network by 31% versus Q1 2024, reflecting increasing demand NAKIVO’s Managed Service Provider Programme empowers MSPs, cloud providers, and hosting companies to offer services such as Backup as a Service (BaaS), Replication as a Service (RaaS), and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). In Q1 2025, NAKIVO grew its MSP partner network by 31% versus Q1 2024, reflecting increasing demand for a flexible, high-performance data protection solution that helps partners meet evolving customer needs. “NAKIVO’s multi-tenancy and self-service capabilities have reduced our operational costs for data protection and cloud services by over 20%, by allowing our users to manage VM backups independently,” said Marco Teelen, Manager of Internet Services at Systemec. Expanding global customer base NAKIVO now supports over 16,000 active customers in 185 countries, marking a 10% year-over-year increase in its customer base. This growth includes a 13% rise in the Asia-Pacific region, 10% in EMEA, and 8% in the Americas, as more organisations choose NAKIVO Backup & Replication for their data protection needs. NAKIVO backup & replication NAKIVO has also expanded its global reach, welcoming its first customers from Gambia and Guernsey Recent customer additions include prominent names such as Oil and Natural Gas Corporation India, Cornell University, and L3Harris Technologies. NAKIVO has also expanded its global reach, welcoming its first customers from Gambia and Guernsey. Enterprises continue to choose NAKIVO Backup & Replication as their trusted data protection solution, with new deployments growing by 8% in Q1 2025 vs Q1 2024. Strengthening technology and solution partnerships In Q1 2025, NAKIVO added 186 new solution providers to its Partner Programme, expanding its presence in both established and emerging markets. Technology alliances also gained momentum, with an 11% increase in Synology NAS deployments, underscoring NAKIVO’s ongoing commitment to seamless integration with trusted hardware platforms. In addition, enhanced compatibility with QNAP NAS, ASUSTOR NAS, and NETGEAR NAS strengthened NAKIVO’s multi-environment support. Product and technology advancements NAKIVO continued to invest in product development in Q1 2025 by enhancing several key features introduced in earlier releases, including: Backup for Proxmox VE Microsoft 365 Backup to Cloud Federated Repository Backup Encryption Localised Product interface: French, German, Italian, Polish, Chinese, and Spanish These enhancements further streamline backup management, improve data security, and expand accessibility for NAKIVO’s growing global customer base. Industry recognition NAKIVO’s performance and innovation continue to be recognised by industry analysts NAKIVO’s performance and innovation continue to be recognised by both industry analysts and customers. The company was recently named one of CRN’s Top 40 Coolest Data Recovery/Observability/Resiliency Vendors. Executive perspective “Q1 2025 has been a strong quarter for us, with solid revenue growth, a significant increase in MSP partnerships, and continued customer expansion,” said Bruce Talley, CEO of NAKIVO. “These results show that organisations of all sizes trust NAKIVO to protect their data in an increasingly complex and threat-prone digital landscape. As we move forward, we’re focused on deepening our technology integrations and delivering even greater value to our partners and customers worldwide.”

FS3017 won Synology a Best Choice Award from the 2016 Computex and topped TechTarget's Quality Awards survey for NAS systems Synology launched FlashStation FS3017, the company's pioneer product within an entirely new all-flash series. Capable of handling over 200,000 IOPS in 4k random writing with RDMA technology enabled, the FS3017 is perfect for big data analysis, video post-production, virtualisation, and handling any demanding database application that requires high IOPS and low latency at the same time. Multitasking stable performance FS3017 features dual Intel Xeon 6-core processors, 64GB DDR4 ECC RDIMM (expandable up to 512GB), dual built-in 10GBase-T ports, and supports optional 10GbE 25GbE 40GbE NICs, guaranteeing stable performance in multitasking and data throughput. FS3017 is also compatible with various SATASAS SSD brands, offering users more flexibility with their budgets. “With Synology's new signature feature RAID F1, we unevenly distribute parity bits across all SSDs to prevent RAID crashes,” says Vice President Vic Hsu, “when the oldest SSD handling the most write-intensive operations wears out, users simply replace it with a new disk without interrupting the RAID.” Data protection and recovery FS3017 runs on Synology's award-winning NAS operating system DSM, with built-in Snapshot Replication which creates 65,000 backup copies to offsite servers, and an inclusive virtualisation solution that incorporates VMware, Citrix, Hyper-V, and OpenStack integration. With Windows ACL, Windows AD and LDAP integration support, plus various application privileges, the FS3017 will soon become the go-to choice for large-scale businesses. FS3017 won Synology another Best Choice Award from the 2016 Computex, maintaining the company's six-year winning streak, just a few months after topping TechTarget's Quality Awards survey for NAS systems.

Western Digital’s WD Purple surveillance-class hard drives are equipped with AllFrame Technology SourceSecurity.com was recently invited to the press unveiling of Western Digital’s newest storage product for the surveillance industry, WD Purple. Presented by Jermaine Campbell, UK Country Manager of Western Digital at the Charlotte Street Hotel in London, Campbell enthusiastically talked through the technology release, explaining Western Digital’s reasons for the products development, as well as its key features and advantages. Having spent 6 months evaluating WD Purple before its release, with testing including extensive engineering evaluations, Western Digital is confidently tagging this product as “The Evolution of Surveillance Storage”. As Campbell listed its features, it is not hard to see why Western Digital is so excited about this products release. WD Purple provides 24x7 reliability, offering end-users peace of mind security. The storage product is also capable of supporting up to 32 HD cameras, allowing for expansion of future or existing systems. Most importantly, WD Purple surveillance-class hard drives are equipped with AllFrame Technology, which works with ATA streaming to reduce errors and frame loss and to improve playback performance. Further advantages of the product include up to 4TB of hard drive space, making the WD Purple the largest surveillance drive on the market and BIC (Best in Class) power consumption. “There has been a really interesting transition for WD over the last 8 years from 2005-2013”, said Campbell at the event. “50% of our business is going into Non PC applications. This trend shows that we need to be putting our efforts and investments into applications which are Non PC. Of the Non PC markets, the surveillance sector is getting bigger and bigger.” Built for easy integration into new or existing video surveillance systems, WD Purple hard drives are designed and tested to surveillance-class standards and are compatible with industry-leading chassis and chip-set. Initial launch partners of WD Purple include Qnap, Hikvision, Dahua, Samsung Techwin, Synology, Panasonic US, Pelco and Q-See.     There is no doubt of the confidence WD have in their product. “We want to become THE surveillance storage brand,” continued Campbell. “We want to educate the industry that you have to pick the right drive for the right application” Campbell was joined at the event by WD’s Senior Channel Marketing Manager Alessandra de Paula and Daniel Mauerhofer, WD’s Head of Public Relations, EMEA & India.